6G split computing architecture supports holograms and drone safety
6G NeXt - Towards 6G Split Computing Network Applications: Use Cases and Architecture
Networking and Internet ArchitectureDistributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Summary
As mobile communication evolves to 6G, new applications like holographic calls and drone collision avoidance create big challenges. The authors explain that these require fast computing spread across the network, not just on the devices. They describe an architecture that splits computing tasks between devices and network computers, tightly connecting processing and wireless parts. This helps meet the demanding speed and cooperation needs of these future applications.
What this means in practice
- •For mobile network engineers: Design network infrastructure that distributes computing for high-power 6G applications like holograms and drones to ensure connection reliability and speed.
- •For drone fleet operators: Implement anti-collision systems that cooperate via distributed network computing enabled by 6G split computing architecture for safer drone operations.
A position paper. It proposes an approach and reports no results.
Authors
Sergiy Melnyk, Qiuheng Zhou, Hans D. Schotten, Mandy Galkow-Schneider, Ingo Friese, Tobias Pfandzelter, David Bermbach, Louay Bassbouss, Alexander Zoubarev, Andy Neparidze, Arndt Kritzner, Enrico Zschau, Prasenjit Dhara, Steve Göring, William Menz, Alexander Raake, Wolfgang Rüther-Kindel, Fabian Quaeck, Nick Stuckert, Robert Vilter
Abstract
The definition of the sixth generation mobile communication is in the full swing. Mobile communication aims for the convergence of physical, human and digital world. Research project 6G NeXt is considering two demanding use cases, holographic communications and drones anti-collision system, which set heterogeneous requirements on the communication as well as the computing infrastructure. In both use cases, the clients are widely spread in the network and are cooperatively interacting with each other. Especially for holographic communication, also high processing power is required. This makes a high-speed distributed backbone computing infrastructure, which realises the concept of split-computing, inevitable. Furthermore, tight integration between processing facilities and wireless network is required in order to provide adequate quality of service to the users. This paper illustrates the use case scenarios and their requirements. Afterwards, an appropriate solution approach to realise those is elaborated. Here, the novel technological approaches are discussed based on the developed overall communication and computing architecture.